When We Went Out With Grandmamma.

When we went out with Grandmamma--     Mamma said for a treat--     Oh, dear, how stiff we had to walk     As we went down the street.     One on each side we had to go,     And never laugh or loll;     I carried Prim, her Spaniard dog,     And Tom--her parasol.     If I looked right--if Tom looked left--     "Tom--Susan--I'm ashamed;     And little Prim, I'm sure, is shocked,     To hear such naughties named."     She said we had no manners,     If we ever talked or sung;     "You should have seen," said Grandmamma,     "Me walk, when I was young."     She told us--oh, so often--     How little girls and boys,     In the good days when she was young,     Never made any noise.     She said they never wished then     To play--oh, indeed!     They learnt to sew and needlework,     Or else to write and read.     She said her mother never let     Her speak a word at meals;     "But now," said Grandmamma, "you'd think     That children's tongues had wheels     "So fast they go--clack, clack, clack, clack;     Now listen well, I pray,     And let me see you both improve     From what I've said to-day."